should your ability to write well be the deciding factor in getting a job?
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“Grammar is my litmus test,” the C.E.O. of iFixit wrote recently in the Harvard Business Review. “If job hopefuls can’t distinguish between ‘to’ and ‘too,’ their applications go into the bin.”
But grammar often seems to be a low priority in education. A student could pass the New York State English Regents exam by writing: “These two Charater have very different mind Sets because they are creative in away that no one would imagen just put clay together and using leaves to create Art.”
Are schools undervaluing grammar, given that employers may rule out applicants with sloppy writing? Or are these employers being old-fashioned and missing out on some qualified candidates?
There's good writers on here, meaning they pay attention to what they write and how they write it. And... there's awful ones, too.
What do you guys think? Should a grammar mistake cost you the chance of landing a job?
When you read other people's posts on here, do you take how well they write into consideration in deciding whether to take them seriously?
Aug-14-2012 15:12
Halcyon+On+On
Liebchen
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: midcoast
Re: should your ability to write well be the deciding factor in getting a job?
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Originally posted by OrangestO
And... there's awful ones, too.
Shouldn't this be "there are"? You wouldn't say "there is awful ones, too".
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Aug-14-2012 15:18
EarnYourKeep
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: twentyonetwo
Threads like this is why the cor sucks now a days
This thread will be at least 25 pages of people arguing over proper grammar while flexing their intellectual perspective on how the region they live in directly affects it.
Word Life, YOLO, FISH fuck it shit happens, for real my nigga
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Aug-14-2012 15:21
OrangestO
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Re: Re: should your ability to write well be the deciding factor in getting a job?
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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Shouldn't this be "there are"? You wouldn't say "there is awful ones, too".
Your right.
Aug-14-2012 15:23
Halcyon+On+On
Liebchen
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: midcoast
You're highered!
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Aug-14-2012 15:26
Halcyon+On+On
Liebchen
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: midcoast
quote:
Originally posted by EarnYourKeep
Threads like this is why the cor sucks now a days
This thread will be at least 25 pages of people arguing over proper grammar while flexing their intellectual perspective on how the region they live in directly affects it.
Word Life, YOLO, FISH fuck it shit happens, for real my nigga
True Story
Why are you here if absolutely all of your posts are about how this board sucks and how it's just gone downhill since Slylee left and oh, things aren't what they used to be, sadface.
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Aug-14-2012 15:31
srussell0018
Chaostician
Registered: Dec 2006
Location: Blumsberg
NORTH SIDE WEST SIDE UPTOWN EAST SIDE DOWNTOWN NYC 4 LYF SON.
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This isn't about physics, this is about waves.
Aug-14-2012 15:33
Moral Hazard
Oppressing the 99%
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: with the 1%
Re: Re: should your ability to write well be the deciding factor in getting a job?
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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Shouldn't this be "there are"? You wouldn't say "there is awful ones, too".
DING!
In addition; one should never start a sentence (or in this case sentence fragment with "and."
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you're just a shit version of Moral Hazard. At least he knows what he's talking about.
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lol, i love it when moral feels the need to lay the smack down
Aug-14-2012 15:34
ziptnf
Programming your future
Registered: Jun 2008
Location: Louisville, KY
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Originally posted by srussell0018
NORTH SIDE WEST SIDE UPTOWN EAST SIDE DOWNTOWN NYC 4 LYF SON.
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Also, I think grammar shouldn't be the determining factor in the hiring process, but it should be given substantial weight. People who write like they're a child are just embarrassing, and you wouldn't want someone like that associated with your company.
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Originally posted by OrangestO
This isn't about physics, this is about waves.
Last edited by srussell0018 on Aug-14-2012 at 15:43
Aug-14-2012 15:35
ziptnf
Programming your future
Registered: Jun 2008
Location: Louisville, KY
Re: Re: Re: should your ability to write well be the deciding factor in getting a job?
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Originally posted by Moral Hazard
DING!
In addition; one should never start a sentence (or in this case sentence fragment with "and."
You forgot a closing parenthesis.
Also, you shouldn't have put a period inside the quotations. That should have gone outside the closing parenthesis that wasn't there.
Edit: And what is the purpose of the semi-colon after "In addition"? In addition can't be its own complete sentence.
